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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al. CLT homeownership helps to protect property values from economic shocks—both the property owned by the trust and other properties nearby (Decker 2018, Nelson 2020).

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Earth Day Part 1: DC isn't achieving its sustainability goals wrt waste diversion

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

According to the Washington Informer article, " DC's new plan to slash its trash ," DC is adding ten years, one decade more, to its waste diversion goal, from 2030 to 2040 That's 16 years!!!!!!!!!! I've written about DC's waste practices for years (" More on zero waste practice and DC ," 2015). It's boutique, not substantive.

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Episode 4 - Ashley Mahan, FedRAMP Evangelist

GovCast

Sept 17, 2018 | This fourth episode features Ashley Mahan, the General Services Administration’s first evangelist for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. She came to GSA in 2015 to stand up her role and help agencies understand FedRAMP — but she doesn’t have an educational background in IT.

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The Future Is Customer-Centered

GovLoop

But in 2015, VA set up the Veterans Experience Office to begin to address the way veterans’ needs were met. In 2018, the Office of Management and Budget made VA a lead agency partner to pilot improving CX across the federal government. What are the touchpoints where veterans will encounter this new information?

2016 64
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CFP: CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction

A Library Writer's Blog

Maura holds an MSI from the University of Michigan School of Information, an MA in American studies from the University of Minnesota, and a graduate certificate in digital public humanities from George Mason University. from the University of Michigan School of Information, and is working towards a Masters of Data Science at SMU.

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Denver and Rio Grande Rail Trail in Davis County, Utah: a great foundation, full of (missed) opportunity

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There is no website specific to the trail (although some government websites, in particular Farmington , Bountiful , and Davis County have information but can have severe presentation and user experience faults). Although government, independent trail sites and apps have information. There were some amenities here and there.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. But it's quite impressive in two ways. It's being built relatively quickly. The extension to Orlando is opening later this year.